Act of building; practice of erecting buildings. His son builds on and never is content, till the last farthing is in structure spent.

Manner of building; form; make; construction; as the want of insight into the structure and constitution of the terraqueous globe.

Manner of organization of animals and vegetables.

A building of any kind, but chiefly a building of some size or of magnificence; an edifice. The iron bridge over the Seine in Paris, is a beautiful structure. There stands a structure of majestic frame.

In mineralogy, the particular arrangement of the integrant particles or molecules of a mineral.